RUMINANTIA-CERVINAE-CERVUS VIRGINIANUS. 
643 
species of Ameivx and other reptilia, known to be exclusively South American ; and it is more 
than probable that the present is another of his errors. 
The elk is the most widely distributed of any American deer, reaching from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific, and ranging through many degrees of latitude—according to Richardson, as far 
north as the 57411 parallel. At the present day the only well ascertained eastern localities are 
tho Allegheny regions of Pennsylvania and Virginia ; the fact of its occurrence in New York 
being very uncertain. It is not met with until we reach Minnesota, (or perhaps northern 
Wisconsin) ; to the westward of this it becomes abundant, and appears most numerous on the 
upper Missouri and Yellowstone. 
A very complete account of the habits of this species will he found in the article of Audubon 
and Bachman. 
List of specimens. 
| Catalogue number. 
Corrcsp’g No. of skull. 
| Sex and age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence and how 
obtained. 
Original number. 
Nature of 
specimen. 
B 
d 
o 
o 
Nose to tail. g 
Tail to end of vert. g 
S? 
Tail to end of hairs. 
Collected by— 
Pennsylvania. 
Prnf. S. f?. HalHpman t . ... 
Antlers T T t , 
487 
1628 
i 
Clarke county, Va. 
Oct., 1854.... 
Col. Jos. Tuley.. 
’Skin in ale. 
488 
1629 
Q 
Jan., 1855._ 
3013 
2847 
$ 
White Earth river, Neb 
Sep. 12,1856 
Lt. (t. K. Warren.. 
Skin. 
104 
Dr. F. V. Hayden. 
2020 
2854 
oQ 
Little Missouri. 
Sep. 15, 1856 
2018 
Q 
Fort Berthold. 
Sep. 16,1856 
.do. 
,, .do. 
2019 
2853 
Q 
White Earth river. 
Sep. 8, 1856 
.do. 
2015 
s 
Yellowstone. 
August..___ 
1881 
2579 
8 
Republican Fork. 
Oct. 4, 1856 
Lt. F. T. Bryan. 
359 
.. .do. 
26 
156 1 
5.00 
7.50 
W. S. Wood . 
1880 
2578 
Q 
Medicine Bow river. 
Aug. 22, 1856 
.do.. 
296 
.do....... 
22 
117* 
7.00 
8.50 
.do. 
1882 
2580 
08 
Aug. 23, 1856 
.do.. 
327 
...do....... 
14* 
71* 1 
3.50 
6.00 
. .do. 
3253 
San Francisco, Cal. 
fit. W. P. Trnwhrid«re 
Antlers .... 
. 
1 I give these measurements as being on the labels, but there is evidently an error of some kind in the excessive length. 
CERVUS VIRGrINIANUS, Boddaert. 
Virginia Deer. 
Cerous virgimanus, Boddaert, Elenchus Animalium, I, 1784, 136. 
Zimmermann, Pennant’s Arktische Zoologie, 1787, 31. 
Gmelen, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 179. 
Kerr’s Linnaeus, 1792, 299. 
Schreber, Saugt. Y, 1836. 1 (!); tab. ccxlvii, not of text. 
Shaw, Gen. Zool. II, 1801, 284. 
Desmarest, Mammalogie, II, 1822, 442. 
?Say, in Narr. Long's Exped. I. 1823, 103. (var.) 
Harlan, F. Am. 1825, 238. 
Godman, Am. N. H. II, 306. 
Doughty's Cab. N. H. I. 1830, 3; pi. i. J, Q, o. 
Dekay, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 113 ; pi. xxviii. f. 1. 
Wagner, Suppl. Sclireb. IV, 1844, 373. 
Aud. & Bach, N. Am. Quad. II, 1851, 220 ; pi. lxxxi, cxxxvi. 
Pucheran, Mon. du Cerf, Ann. du Mus. VI, 1852, 305. 
Cbrvus ( Mamma) virginianm , Ham Smith, Griffith’s Cuv. IV, 1278, 127, V, 315. 
Sundevall, K. Sv. Ak. Vet. Handl. for 1844 .—Ib. Archiv Skand. Beit. II, 1850, 134. 
1 See note p. 644 
